Noto

Noto
Country	Italy
region	Sicily
Free community consortium	Syracuse (SR)
Local name	Nuotu
Coordinates	36 ° 53 ' N , 15 ° 4' E Coordinates: 36 ° 53 '20 " N , 15 ° 4' 13" E
height	152 m slm
surface	550.86 km²
Residents	24,154 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	44 inhabitants / km²
Factions	Marina di Noto, Testa dell'Acqua
Post Code	96017
prefix	0931
ISTAT number	089013
Popular name	Notinesi (or Netini)
Patron saint	San Corrado Confalonieri
Website	Noto

Noto is a town in the municipality consortium Syracuse outdoors in the region Sicily in Italy with 24,154 inhabitants (December 31, 2019). Noto is one of the late baroque towns of the Val di Noto that has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Location and dates

Noto is 35 kilometers southwest of Syracuse on the southern edge of the Monti Iblei at 159 m slm. The inhabitants work mainly in agriculture, industry and tourism.

The station is on the Canicattì – Syracuse railway line and the city is connected to the Italian motorway network with an exit on the A18 motorway.

Noto is the bishopric of the Diocese of Noto .

With an area of 550.86 km², Noto is the fourth largest municipality in Italy in terms of area and, in addition to the core city, includes the districts of Marina di Noto, San Corrado di Fuori and Testa dell'Acqua and San Lorenzo.

The neighboring municipalities are Avola , Canicattini Bagni , Ispica ( RG ), Modica (RG), Pachino , Palazzolo Acreide , Rosolini and Syracuse .

history

Porta Reale

About 6 km northwest of today's city is the ancient Neton (Latin Netum , now called Noto Antica or Noto Vecchia ), which, founded by the Sikelern , came under the control of Syracuse early on . From 263 B.C. The city was officially ruled by Hieron II. Later it came under Roman rule as civitas foederata . Excavations brought to light the Sicilian necropolis , Hellenistic tombs and catacombs .

Under the Arabs (from 862) Noto gained supraregional importance in the Middle Ages and was the last Muslim bastion in Italy until 1091 .

The present city was built in 1703 southeast of Noto Antica, which was completely destroyed by an earthquake in 1693. As a result, Noto was rebuilt according to plan and uniformly in the style of the Sicilian baroque . City architect was Rosario Gagliardi . The architect Vincenzo Sinatra also contributed to today's cityscape with his buildings.

Cityscape and buildings

Noto Cathedral

Chiesa di San Domenico

Chiesa di Montevergine

Palazzo Villadorata

San Nicolò Cathedral

A rectangular street grid was used as the basis for the construction of the new city. The preferred building material for churches and palaces was light-colored tufa from the area.

Noto is one of the Sicilian baroque cities. She is one of 2002 by the UNESCO for World Heritage declared late Baroque towns of the Val di Noto .

Churches

San Nicolò , the cathedral of Noto
Santa Caterina
Nome di Gesù
San Michele Arcangelo
Santa Maria della Scala
Santa Chiara with a Madonna by Antonello Gagini
San Francesco D'Assisi (also Chiesa dell'Immacolata) by Rosario Gagliardi with the former Franciscan monastery
Spirito Santo
Ecce Homo
Santa Maria dell'Arco
Anime Sante del Purgatorio
Santa Maria della Rotonda
Santissima Trinità
San Carlo al Corso
Santa Maria del Carmelo
San Pietro Martire
San Michele Arcangelo
San Domenico, built from 1737 by Rosario Gagliardi
Sant'Antonio Abate
San Corrado
Santa Caterina
Crociferio di San Camillo
Montevergine (also Chiesa di San Girolamo) by Vincenzo Sinatra , the high baroque facade dominates the Via Corrado Nicolaci, the upper end of which it forms
Santissimo Salvatore, former monastery church
San Andrea Apostolo
San Pietro delle Rose (also Chiesa Santi Pietro e Paolo)
Danto Crocifisso, built from 1715, with a Madonna by Francesco Laurana
San Egidio Vescovo
Santa Maria del Gesù
Santissima Annunziata
Sant'Agata, built from 1710 by Rosario Gagliardi

Other structures

Palazzo Ducezio, now the town hall, built by Vincenzo Sinatra from 1746
Palazzo Nicolaci (also Palazzo Villadorata), today the seat of the city library
Museo Civico, the municipal museum with finds from the area, statues by Gian Domenico Gagini and a collection of modern art

Surroundings

Noto Antica, the ruins of the ancient city of Noto, destroyed in the 1693 earthquake
San Corrado di Fuori, a pilgrimage site dedicated to the patron saint of Noto
Villa Romana del Tellaro , a Roman villa from the 4th century with valuable mosaics
Eloro , an ancient settlement on the coast southeast of Noto
Riserva Naturale Oasi faunistica di Vendicari , a nature reserve south of Noto

partnership

Italy Pontremoli in Tuscany , Italy

sons and daughters of the town

Giovanni Aurispa (1376-1459), humanist
Francesco Paolo Labisi (1720–1798), Baroque architect
Vincenzo Sinatra (1720–1765), Baroque architect
Pierantonio Tasca (1858–1934), composer

literature

Paul Hofer: Noto - ideal city and urban space in the Sicilian 18th century . gta Verlag 1996. ISBN 978-3-85676-039-7 .

Web links

Commons : Noto - collection of images, videos and audio files

Notos website (English and Italian)

Individual evidence

↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
↑ Superfici delle unità amministrative a fini statistici, Istat . November 19, 2019 ( istat.it [accessed December 30, 2019]).
↑ Squeezed out like an olive: In Sicily, world heritage cities are threatened by oil drilling . Thomas Radigk for Kulturzeit . January 16, 2007.

[1] Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.

[2] Superfici delle unità amministrative a fini statistici, Istat . November 19, 2019 ( istat.it [accessed December 30, 2019]).

[3] Squeezed out like an olive: In Sicily, world heritage cities are threatened by oil drilling . Thomas Radigk for Kulturzeit . January 16, 2007.